@movq@www.uninformativ.de What about something like what Antenna does?, supplying a URL you can call to push your feed
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de could be something interesting, I vaguely remember Trackback in blogs like something similar for discoverability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback
@movq@www.uninformativ.de yarnd already supports this by using WebMentions – It’s just been neglected over some months and I’m trying to fix it proper for the upcoming v0.13 release. Is WebMentions suitable here do you think? It has worked well in the past across pods at least, and honestly isn’t that hard to implement anywhere else either.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hmmm after carefully reading your crique, I’m inclined to agree with you with respect to entirely dropping the notion of any kind of “hey I’m trying to mention you here!”. That is to say, the original spec (for all it’s short ocmings), really it’s beauty was the “pull mode” which I really quite like.
So… Can we just decide never to support this at all? And instead expect (which is up to clients really and doesn’t need to be roamlized) clients to keep track of if they’ve been mentioned already be mere fact of parsing feeds they follow?
The only downside of course is, new discovery. It is impossible to know, reach out to someone new, without them first following you. But that was always a shortcoming before. Do we really need this? Or should “social connections” be organic anyway? I don’t know… 🤔 I’m included personally to rm -rf *webmention* all the code in yarnd as it’s hard to support anyway…
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yes WebMentions could be applied to gopher and Gemini I think
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh I see yes you are right slightly different but overlapping ideas Hmmmm 🤔
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @movq@www.uninformativ.de The thing is yarnd always supported the use of WebMentions – It’s been broken for a while because well priorities and we desperately need to slow down and focus on e2e integration tests (yes I know @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org !) – But it got fixed proper today once and for all, and it works really nicely.